Doug Baldwin Quotes

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

You have to go through the ups and downs to really be able to root yourself and focus on what's important.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.